On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Jason A. Spiro <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Peter Kasting <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > IRC is absolutely the wrong
> > method for support.  Encouraging that makes everything worse.
>
> Why is it a bad method for support?


Because it's roughly one-to-one.  We want something that is roughly
one-to-ten-million.  This is precisely what all our existing support
mechanisms try to achieve.

we can require that people search the forum archives
> before asking questions in #chrome.


No, you can _tell_ people to search archives.  You can't require that they
do, that I know of.

If non-Googlers want to help with support, contributing to our existing
forums is far better than finding ways to get people to use IRC.  The
cost/benefit test doesn't come close to passing.

PK

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